final idea for history of circus

Team Bee have finally decided to produce a website that goes through the different aspects of the circus. I will be designing a home page that will include a world map, I will look into the history of American, French, English and German circus. I will be making this child friendly as possible as this could be rather bland compared to the other parts of the website.I need to take into consideration what children find entertaining. To find this out I will be asking the younger members of my family, and also looking into interactive children websites such as Cbeebies etc. This will be my starting point.

As I have already mentioned I will be producing a world map, when you hover the mouse over the flags, the flag itself will zoom forward and spread across the whole screen from here, you will click onto the flag and then you will enter the part of the county that you have selected. From here I will have a simple layout as I don't want to over power the child with too much information. Another factor will be to think of the colour schemes. I have noticed whilst looking at other children websites, that colours help navigate the child around the website itself, this is a technique that I will be working with. Most websites have a range of primary colours, I feel this is because children relate to this. I will be producing a slide show that shows how that circus has changed throughout the years, the buttons which move the slideshow across will be a face of a clown which smiles when you press the button. I want to make my part as interactive as possible.

The next pages will all consist of the same layout. The title will reinforce the colours of the flags. I'm hoping to produce a quick tour of each circus and have objects and animals that can be clicked on to produce a quick fact. In my opinion I feel that this will be the most successful way to make the history more entertaining. As I have already mentioned I don't want too over power the child with too much information so this is the reasoning behind this factor. I will be planning the look of these pages throughout this week.